Around the Majors - 2022 Version

Jackie Bradley Jr DFA’d
I’d assume we have no room on the roster for him but wouldn’t he be an upgrade defensively over what we have on the bench?
 
Who plays SS for the Phillies with Gregorius on the way out? Stott? Sosa?

The curtain surely came down quickly on both Gregorius' and Bradley's careers. They both hit the wall at full speed.
 
In the new playoff format, does the #1 seed get the lowest seed remaining after wildcard round or are they set to face the winner of 4/5 seed game?
 
Hudson2 said:
He’d probably need 5 starts in the minors at least. I don’t see him helping any this year but he should be ready for ST which is huge.
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You’d have to imagine he’d take the full 30 days for the rehab assignment. So that’s 1 month. So even if we’re only looking at 2 weeks of simulated games we wouldn’t see Soroka until mid September
 
The Mets are 20th in exit velocity. The Braves are 7th.

The Mets are closer the bottom of the exit velocity list (Pirates) than they are to the Braves.

That should tell you something about their luck.
 
striker42 said:
The Mets are 20th in exit velocity. The Braves are 7th.

The Mets are closer the bottom of the exit velocity list (Pirates) than they are to the Braves.

That should tell you something about their luck.
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OK. They also have roughly 200 fewer strikeouts. If the Braves would do just a little more of that, there’d probably be some more chances for their luck on batted balls to even out.

The Mets, unlike years past, do not beat themselves. The Braves often do. We are 41-18 since the start of June, and I bet 12+ of those losses could have been avoided by the team playing smarter baseball.
 
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bravesnumberone said:
OK. They also have roughly 200 fewer strikeouts. If the Braves would do just a little more of that, there’d probably be some more chances for their luck on batted balls to even out.

The Mets, unlike years past, do not beat themselves. The Braves often do. We are 41-18 since the start of June, and I bet 12+ of those losses could have been avoided by the team playing smarter baseball.
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Let's say .300 is a normal babip. 200 less Ks would be 60 more hits if this balls were put in play.
 
Records against teams that would be in the playoffs if the season ended last night:

Braves: 18-22 with TWO series wins - one against the Cardinals, one against the Phillies.

Mets: 28-21. Laid a big egg against the Astros, but swept the Yankees, played even with the Dodgers, and are 16-7 against the Braves and Phillies, whereas the Braves are 10-13 against the Mets and Phillies.

Dodgers are 20-11. Padres are 15-22. Cardinals are 14-19. Phillies are 23-27.

The Braves could be much better in these games by playing fundamentally smarter and with better execution. Instead:

•In a 2-0 game with two outs in the ninth and the tying runs in scoring position, our first baseman is positioned toward the middle of the infield rather than the back of it, creating a situation where a soft liner ticks off his glove, allowing two runs to score, and we go on to lose the game.

•Why is our shortstop late covering second on a double play to get out of the inning, creating a timing situation where an errant throw leads to two runs on the play and completely changes the game? If it's a matter of where he was positioned to start the play, which would make that kind of double play harder to turn, why is the first baseman not throwing home to at least ensure we don't allow a run to score on the play?

•Why are we hesitating to go on contact at third and getting thrown out at home on a ball that was hit to second?

•Why are we trying to tag up from second on a medium fly to right, down three? He wound up being safe, but it was unnecessary dumbassery nonetheless.

•Why is our RF airmailing a throw home on a single and allowing another runner to reach scoring position when he didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of throwing out the runner?

•In a situation where we need base runners, why are we swinging at a 2-0 pitch that starts inside and runs in on the hands? Why do we seemingly not go into a game against a tough pitcher with any sense of a plan?

•We got hosed on a call where the Mets' runner never touched the plate. But if the throw was actually on target, he would have been clearly out and our catcher wouldn't have gotten hurt.

•Why are we aimlessly lollypopping pickoff throws over to first that wind up down the right-field line?

•Why are we constantly walking and hitting guys ahead in the count with two strikes?

•In a situation where you're the tying run and ahead in the count 3-0, and the pitcher comes inside, how in the hell do you turn your shoulder open and expose the bat to allow for the possibility of the ball hitting it?

This is just a small sampling.
 
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bravesnumberone said:
OK. They also have roughly 200 fewer strikeouts. If the Braves would do just a little more of that, there’d probably be some more chances for their luck on batted balls to even out.

The Mets, unlike years past, do not beat themselves. The Braves often do. We are 41-18 since the start of June, and I bet 12+ of those losses could have been avoided by the team playing smarter baseball.
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For some reason Fangraphs was defaulting to 2021 for me. The real numbers are similar. The Mets are 17th in EV and the Braves are 3rd. Mets are 20th in hard hit %, Braves are second. The Braves have hit 55 more HRs than the Mets have. That's half again as many as the Mets have hit.

Yet the Mets have scored only two fewer runs than the Braves.

The K numbers don't come close to making up for all the weak contact. The Mets are extremely lucky this year.
 
striker42 said:
For some reason Fangraphs was defaulting to 2021 for me. The real numbers are similar. The Mets are 17th in EV and the Braves are 3rd. Mets are 20th in hard hit %, Braves are second. The Braves have hit 55 more HRs than the Mets have. That's half again as many as the Mets have hit.

Yet the Mets have scored only two fewer runs than the Braves.

The K numbers don't come close to making up for all the weak contact. The Mets are extremely lucky this year.
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If the Braves simply played smart baseball, they would even some of that luck out. Just basic situational fundamentals of playing the game that have often eluded them in these games.
 
striker42 said:
For some reason Fangraphs was defaulting to 2021 for me. The real numbers are similar. The Mets are 17th in EV and the Braves are 3rd. Mets are 20th in hard hit %, Braves are second. The Braves have hit 55 more HRs than the Mets have. That's half again as many as the Mets have hit.

Yet the Mets have scored only two fewer runs than the Braves.

The K numbers don't come close to making up for all the weak contact. The Mets are extremely lucky this year.
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They are 6th in babip, but the braves are 8th
 
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